Rubik's Cube life

Rubik's Cube life by Heath Dimsdle ©


The Christian life is alot like a Rubik's Cube
The colors finally all aligned symbolizing when we "get it"
Most people spend a majority of their time working on one side
All the while neglecting the other pieces of the puzzle
When we get one side done right we want to start bragging until...
Until we see just how messed up the others are, and how we just missed it
I think of it another way...
I view it as me giving a Rubik's Cube to someone who is completely color blind.
Color blind meaning they can only see in shades of black, grey, and white.
Mean, you might think so...
But, it is a better depiction of what it's really like in our life.
It's all about perception!
They can spend So much time trying to get all the "shades" of one color right.
They can even detect what is light and dark, Yes
But, they do not know which one is the right one to go with to complete the task.
They can try their best to align themselves with the right "shades"
To them this seems logical because of their perspective.
How limited the perspective!
Once they have light and dark separated the best they can...
All they notice is that in the "back" there are always one or two things
Always those little dark squares that are in the light,
But, life is complex, God gives us ways out that we sometimes dont see
Perspective...
With a Rubik's Cube if you have one DARK off in the LIGHT that's messing it up...
That means there is also one LIGHT amongst the DARK.
Always a way out!
Perspective...
Personally, I like the way God handed me MY Rubik's cube.
He let me struggle with it, fight with it, get it horribly wrong
He let me "almost get there" and then there was that freaking DARK spot
Right in the middle of all my lights!!
That's all I could focus on.
That's all WE as Christians focus on.
Fixing the DARK Spot!
Oh how limited our Perspective...
As we give up, and mix it all back up again, trying to start over
Trying the best we can to "give it a go" and see what we can do different.
Love Interrupts
God's Love Interrupts
God takes our Rubik's cube life in his hands...
We think. YES!!! He's going to figure it out for me!
As we anxiously await the answer to the puzzle, all the confusion
God takes the Rubik's cube of our life... Ask us, "Do you really want this?"
As we eagerly say "YES!! PLEASE MAKE SENCE OF THE SENCELESS!!"
HE... simply starts "removing the squares"... Peeling them off, one by one
Every little sticky square that doesnt want to be removed
We think... why didn't we just do that?
Perspective!
He keeps taking them off... more and more
Till all we have left is a Blank cube... complete, unified, and most of all
Whole.
Without spot or blemish.
God then hands us back the "Cube" and ask.
What will you do with it now?
Knowing good an well that we will put a few squares of our own on there
But... now we know that to become whole again, to be right, to "get it"
All we need to do is be stripped of what confines us, what keeps us bound
Go back to the blank cube, the building block of the "ONE"
Find your perspective!